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dance floor demon moonlighting as a reluctant academic

⚜️ nola / htx 🤘
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
rest easy, Jimmy Cliff ☀️

my father loved ‘The Harder They Come’ and we must have listened to the album thousands of times. still front of my record box. it’s how my dad taught me about the radical power of music and the freedom fighters whose stories it tells.
So as sure as the sun will shine

I'm gonna get my share now what's mine

And then the harder they come

The harder they fall one and all

Ooh the harder they come

The harder they fall one and all
The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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1/ Maria Garcia had just reunited with her 15-year-old son Emmanuel after he went missing in early October and the Houston Police Department placed him in federal custody.
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
in retrospect, it was a great honor and delight to dance thru this era of music. i’m so glad i was there (was literally at this party)! we had no idea at the time.
Hardfloor live in Washington / USA - June 13th 1997

#throwbackthursday #tbt #flyer #history #timemachine
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
i have never been so excited about a race that i had no horse in at all. so happy for nyc!!!
The name is Mamdani
M-A-M-D-A-N-I

The name is Mamdani
M-A-M-D-A-N-I

You should learn how to say it

M-A-M-D-A-N-I

You should learn how to say it

M-A-M-D-A-N-I

Because we have won 🫠
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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if you're into dance music you owe everything to Jamaica and its people. clubs and raves would be nowhere without Jamaican soundsystem culture. they simply wouldn't exist.
#Jamaica needs our support more than ever right now and, never ones to shy away from self-reliance, they’ve set up an officially sanctioned website for recovery donations. The footage of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction in St. Elizabeth coming in from my family is HARROWING.

supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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An emergency Jamaica relief website has been set up with focused supply lists, financial support link, and updates:

supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica – Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Portal
Join hands with the Government of Jamaica. Support national disaster relief, locate shelters, and stay informed on Hurricane Melissa updates.
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“Texas is home to vibrant gay, lesbian, and drag scenes. And not just in Austin, Houston, and Dallas, but in many, many smaller areas.”
October 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
accurate, front left 4ever 🔊
October 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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in this thread of guides we have:

- protest guides against government surveillance
- what a faraday pouch does
- best VPNs to protecting your privacy online
- background on “no kings” organizers
- what tools the trump administration is deploying to surveil protesters and his “enemies”
- and more
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Oct 17
As the Trump administration continues its crackdown, millions across the US are expected to hit the streets for this weekend's "No Kings" protest. If that includes you or your loved ones, here's a 🧵 of guides to follow to protest safely in the age of surveillance.

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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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i’ll never get over this
October 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Passive aggressive level 100 this is how we roll in the PNW 🤣 Protesters in Portland are going ice fishing with donuts as bait on fishing polls, holding dance offs in front of ICE barricades in goofy costumes and just being incredibly annoying to ICE there's no violence from protesters whatsoever.
September 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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"Thank you for your timely attendance, officers, as I mentioned on the phone I believe Ratty and Badger are senior members of Antifa"
October 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Portland PD pumped tear gas into a peaceful protestor’s inflatable cartoon frog costume because ICE was scared of him
Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"
October 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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i’m glad they’re looking into antifa now maybe i can finally find where they hold their meetings
September 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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It would be pretty awesome for every professor in Texas to talk about how there are more than two sexes in class today.

They can pick you off one by one. But they can’t fire all of you at once. Solidarity is the only way through this.
September 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Extensive interview finally published where we talk about, improvisation, clocks, who was the rapper and who was the guitarist.
toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...
Tone Glow 189: Multiples (Speedy J & Surgeon)
An interview with Multiples, the duo of legendary techno producers Speedy J & Surgeon, about improvisation, avoiding "nice music", and their album 'Two Hours or Something'
toneglow.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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The Snitch State

This is the nightmare of many faculty at public institutions in GOP-controlled states… being ratted out by students to hostile administrators.
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.
September 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM